DDA-610, Digital Arts Practicum
For your Artist's Statement, you will write two statements -- an extended statement, and a short statement.
General Statement about your art practice
This is extended artist's statement is intended for art professionals. Your statement should address what you are trying to do in your artwork overall. It should not be about a specific artwork; instead it should be about your overall art practice.It must also include how you feel your artwork relates to other artistic approaches or paradigms, critical theories, or prior artworks and issues -- that is,how your work fits into the trajectory of the artistic traditions you are working in. The approaches, paradigms, or theory that you reference may be historical or contemporary, from the Western tradition or from any other artistic tradition. Your statement can also include personal issues and interests, but only as they relate significantly to your artwork and your art practice.
Your statement should be approximately 1-2 pages in length, and neatly formatted.
Specific Statement about your individual project
This artist's statement is specificallly about your individual artwork project. Here, you speak of the issues you were dealing with in this particular artwork. These may be any of the issues you also wrote about in your general statement. You should also add thoughts and information about this specific artwork -- what you were thinking about, what you were trying to do, was the process important, are the materials important, etc. This statement can be anywhere from one paragraph to one page long.
Each statement should be posted as a PDF file to your blog.